At Ease With Coleman Hawkins (Remastered 2026) Coleman Hawkins

• 1 For You, For Me, For Evermore (Remastered 2026) 06:10
• 2 While We're Young (Remastered 2026) 03:33
• 3 Then I'll Be Tired Of You (Remastered 2026) 05:09
• 4 Mighty Like A Rose (Remastered 2026) 04:05
• 5 At Dawning (Remastered 2026) 04:39
• 6 Trouble Is A Man (Remastered 2026) 05:29
• 7 Poor Butterfly (Remastered 2026) 06:06
• 8 I'll Get By (As Long As I Have You) (Remastered 2026) 06:41
• Total Runtime 41:52

Info for At Ease With Coleman Hawkins (Remastered 2026)

"At Ease" is one of the most charming and attractive of the many albums the two made together—a collection of ballads played with great affection for the melody. Hawkins could be fiercely aggressive in his playing. In this collection, he displays his tenderness. If ever there was a master of the ballad, it was Coleman Hawkins. His romantic style and sound caused one writer to say: "Hawk turned the saxophone into the sexophone."

"At Ease" was done for the Moodsville series but while Hawkins, with the expert help of his pianist, Tommy Flanagan, sets a mood on eight standards, it is never merely mood music.

with Tommy Flanagan, Wendell Marshall, Osie Johnson “I was the engineer on the recording sessions and I also made the masters for the original LP issues of these albums. Since the advent of the CD, other people have been making the masters. Mastering is the final step in the process of creating the sound of the finished product. Now, thanks to the folks at the Concord Music Group who have given me the opportunity to remaster these albums, I can present my versions of the music, using modern technology. I remember the sessions well, I remember how the musicians wanted to sound, and I remember their reactions to the playbacks. Today, I feel strongly that I am their messenger.” — Rudy Van Gelder

Coleman Hawkins, tenor saxophone
Tommy Flanagan, piano
Wendell Marshall, bass
Osie Johnson, drums

Recorded in 1960 at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

Digitally remastered by Rudy Van Gelder

Please Note: We have deliberately chosen not to offer this album at 192 kHz. Our analysis of the frequency spectrum has clearly shown that the signal content does not justify such a high sampling rate. We are therefore making the album available at 96 kHz.

Coleman Hawkins
was born in St. Joseph Missouri in 1904. He attended High School in Topeka Kansas, and subsequently had two years of college music education at Washburn College. Shortly after this period, he would relocate to New York City, where he would begin a long and prosperous tenure with Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra. He would come in contact with Louis Armstrong during this time, and it would have an incredible impact on Hawkins. He would later go on to tour extensively in Europe before returning to America for another long stretch. Coleman Hawkins is thought of as the first person to bring the tenor saxophone to prominence in jazz music. There were players before him, but he is often credited as being the first to demand that the instrument be taken seriously. His virtuosic approach to improvisation, often consisting of advanced harmonies and arpeggios, was among the first styles to be tailored precisely to the tenor sax. Coleman Hawkins would also go on to be a pioneer of the bebop style, associating with musicians like Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Charlie Parker and others.

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